As a state with a robust construction economy, California has served up plenty of topics to discuss in the Construction finance Journal. Many of the articles discussing California mechanics lien law, however, have been specifically focused on one aspect of…

Oklahoma House Bill 1087 (OK-HB-1087 Full Text) becomes law today, November 1st, to explicitly allow lien claimants to include overhead and profits in their claim amount, and potentially other costs as well. We’ve followed the status of this bill from…

A recent decision out of a California appellate court upholds the California lien law standard by which a mechanics lien is valued by the lesser of the contract amount or the value of the work performed. Logically this makes sense, but the Appel…

zlien, of course, has excellent resources describing current Georgia mechanics lien law. But as the LIEN blog has written a lot about recently, states are constantly amending their lien law and amendment…